Former chairman of board of directors of VEFK bank extradited from Austria to Russia

MOSCOW, December 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Accused of a massive fraud the former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of the Eastern European Financial Corporation (VEFK) is being extradited from Austria to Russia, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

“Today at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office the Austrian law enforcement agencies are extraditing Russian citizen Aleksander Gitelson. He is accused under Article 159 Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code for a massive fraud committed by the group in a conspiracy,” the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office said.